collisionwork | Actually Expands Digital Signal To 1s, 0s, AND 2s! (Reply)

First, off, Berit sent me to the Amazon page for the new Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable. I had read about this in disbelief already on some tech pages.

You can get a cable to perform the same job for $5.00 - but if you really REALLY want that "top of the line quality" in sending digital ones and zeros back and forth over copper wire that you can only get by buying an overpriced Monster Cable or something, you could get one for $10-20.00 (although it would probably come in a longer, more useful length than the Denon's 59", which HAS to be bad for signal or something). So what does this SERIOUS audiophile cable from Denon cost?

$500.99.

Really.

So, quite a few consumers think this shameless play for the people with too much money and not enough sense as re: their A/V systems (the same people who buy the biggest, most expensive HD monitors and then don't hook them up to actually get HD signal, or just play everything with a 4:3 aspect ratio stretched to 16:9 so that everyone onscreen has the mumps) is just TOO shameless to go unremarked and unmocked.

There is a fine collection of "Customer Reviews" for this product HERE. They're worth reading. Really.

Thanks again to everyone for the birthday wishes! And to the other everyones (with some overlaps) for the nice comments here and in emails about Ambersons!

So, here I am in Maine, with a new driver's license, trying to get some writing done and finding myself somewhat blocked (it used to be that I wrote better outside NYC, now not so much for some reason). I spent the last 7.5 hours of the first day of my 40th year driving up here - a drive that usually takes me 5.5 hours, but I spent an extra hour in traffic and another driving slowly and unnerved through a massive rain & lightning storm. Always fun. Tomorrow I have nothing to do but write, so maybe I can get something done.

Aw, man . . .

Cyd Charisse has died.

I've been crazy abut her since seeing The Band Wagon (still my favorite "classic" movie musical) at a young age, then later seeing her in Singin' in the Rain and Silk Stockings. I've also seen her in the late kinda-noir Party Girl, which is okay, and the unpleasant Gene Kelly musical It's Always Fair Weather - I don't mind "dark" films, of course, and love musicals that go for the dark, but this one is just sour and unpleasant.

But Band Wagon and Singin' . . . ? Oh, I love them. Here's two numbers from each of those films - and you get some great Astaire and Kelly work in there, too:

Enjoy.